Disposable Workers in the Platform Economy | LSE Research

Apps such as Uber and Just Eat have radically changed the economic landscape, but how has platform technology impacted workers?

Researcher Dalia Gebrial has been exploring what life is like for those who make their living via apps. Her work focuses on race and gender in the platform economy and examines the technologies which make exploitation possible.

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[jodalinkus]

So those drivers could always switch to driving traditional black cabs and consult trade union rep if they got one. Same old labor market challenges gone online.

[casteretpollux]

These employers are criminal. Time for one big trade union.